"Sign said Sara Lee"
"You're sitting in a Dennis chair"
"Saigon all around" (Save The Day)
"Great Pacific Ocean Hispanic" (Kona Coast)
"Here comes a Bernie fire" (Let It Shine)
"Mike Love is burning brightly"

I heard that Dennis would get really mad if you sat in his chair.

Resurrecting this thread since it's relevant again.

The acapella solves it - Carl's line is "If you get lonely in the night I'd come and be with you"

 I need to have a listen if it's on the  YouTube

I just saw this video from the current tour of the band doing 'All I Wanna Do' and it struck me that the background projection was very much in the same mold as the video I made last year for the song. Is it just a coincidence? What do you all think of the similarity?

Here's the concert:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuugIq60Npg

Here's the video I did:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPZFb48zko

'sweet,   sweet are your feet' ??

I gave up on that lyric. It does sound like "sweet are your feet", but I couldn't figure what the preceding word is other that "Be" or "These", so I just went with "These feet are your feet". I take that line to mean that you must take ownership for their care, and by extension, ownership for your own health and well-being. There's even the earlier line in the song "You better take care of your life 'cause nobody else will." that has that same message.

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I've just released a new video to YouTube for the song 'Take A Load Off Your Feet' to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the 'Surf's Up' album which was just yesterday. I hope you'll all check it out.

Take A Load Off Your Feet:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlNngDXPdp8

While making this video I noticed a couple of interesting errors in the original album's lyric sheet. I wonder if someone who has the new box set could tell me if they've been fixed.

First, there's "Pete knows all the treacherous blows"  which should be "treacherous foes".

Second, there's "And dusty old saunas too" which should be be "And does the yogasanas too".  I learned that yogasana is simply another way to describe a yoga pose. It seems to be a shortened form of yoga asanas (yoga poses).
Now the lyric actually makes sense, doesn't it?

My reaction was out loud laughter when Mike started singing California Girls.  It's a shame that this group is legally entitled to be called The Beach Boys.

I remember JEM as the leading album importer back in the 70s. Some of the coolest records were import only. I haven't heard that name in a long time.

I think Brian contributed to the theme of the song as well. there are similarly questionable lyrics in Good To My Baby, Kiss Me Baby, etc. Brian seemed very interested in writing about all aspects of romantic relationships: good, bad, and ugly. likewise, when the Beatles sang "I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved" they weren't singing fiction.

you mention another verse where the girl breaks free, how about another song? Let Him Run Wild could actually be describing the guy in She Knows Me

 Interesting point. Let Him Run Wild could certainly be looked at as another side of that triangle.

The lyrics for this song are really unsettling when you think about it, and sounds like a typical pattern of sociopathic behavior by the boyfriend. He excuses his repeated terrible behavior by telling himself that his girlfriend knows deep down that he really loves her. Does he really, though? His actions sure don't show it. The song needs another verse where the girl breaks free of this creep before the abuse manifests itself in physical ways. And the boyfriend is left alone, hopefully to seek out some professional psychological counseling. As it stands, the song actually seems to condone the misogynistic behavior pattern of the boyfriend. I think this song sounds quite beautiful, but the lyrics and sentiment are unworthy of the Beach Boys. Discuss.

Thanks, for that nice comment, Rocker. I'm so glad that you loved it. I had a fun time making it even though it took quite awhile. I strived not to make the narration too wordy- it was a constant concern, so I'm sorry to hear it didn't always work.  I was always trimming and testing the length as I wrote it. I hope you watch again, if things went by too fast the first time around. 

My new video for Heroes and Villains (My Baby Love The Western Movies) is now on YouTube. What better way to kick off Memorial Day weekend  and the unofficial start of Summer in the USA than with a new Beach Boys video? I hope you all enjoy this labor of love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnrkCBS4fUI&t=309s

The most romantic of all Beach Boys songs has a new YouTube video just in time for Valentines Day. I hope you'll check it out and then have a sweet and Happy Valentines Day with your honey.

Please Let Me Wonder:   https://youtu.be/9apNYBlQqm0

Do people here believe that SMiLE actually had a theme/concept that ran throughout the record?  Or a sequence that is easy to understand/enjoy for a new listener not steeped in the lore?   I love BWPS for many reasons but I've always found the "3 acts" approach somewhat unsatisfying.  I agree that American History/The Cycle of Life/The Elements are very much central themes but the way they've been presented as such distinct/discreet movements makes it appear that there's no overlap.....that Vege-Tables and Cabinessence for example have nothing to do with each other....though looking at the BWPS sequence again maybe I haven't been open to it/discovered it....that viewed/listened as a whole over the course of the album it does "start" at Plymouth Rock and "end" in Hawaii.....I guess I'm asking two questions: 

1.  Do folks here have a "guiding principle" for their SMiLE sequence?

2.  Do you hear BWPS as a three act record or as a unified whole?

The reason it all fell apart, I think, was the lack of a cohesive concept that would tie all the disparate pieces together. A lack of focus. The best way I think of it is a trip through the past that could help inform the present and present a better way forward for the future. With humor.

I prefer the video they released four years with Brian dressed up like Santa Claus.  I love that video.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbgxDgVmMF0

Just think! 2021 will be the 10th anniversary of the Smile Sessions box set. I'd love to think that Capitol has someone working on a 10th anniversary updated set with previously unheard tapes (nice to dream). I guess my SMILE opinion that is hard to shake but unsupported by real evidence is that the session labeled as 'Love To Say Dada: Second Day' was supposed to be the Air Element. It was one of the very last sessions for Smile and I hypothesize that Brian was making a last ditch effort at finishing The Elements suite. He said that Air was a "piano piece" that was never finished and 'Second Day' has the prominent plucked piano strings. It also has the bird chirping sounds which suggest air to me. All unsubstantiated conjecture on my part of course. Weirdly this piece is also on the box set in the Hereoes & Villains outtakes as 'All Day'.

Probably right after Holland  and In Concert was the final high point of their critical respectability under the guidance of Jack Riley, so that would be my answer to the question. In Concert was a highly successful summation of their entire career. Break up at the end of 1974 after a big farewell tour.

Sounds like David Dalton's piece, "Epiphany at Zuma Beach Or Brian Wilson hallucinates me"
http://www.gadflyonline.com/home/05-06-02/ftr-epiphany.html

Thanks for the link, juggler. I enjoyed reading  this slice of 60s SoCal music scene journalism. The movie that's mentioned is 'Seconds' not 'Sounds' if anyone wants to check it out.

Al just shared your video on Facebook.


Check out Break Away, the latest creative lyric video from Summertime Blooz, who also produced Al Jardine
's lyric video for the title track on A Postcard from California--who's feelin' groovy to the max?

That's great to hear! I always appreciate the support from Al Jardine's Facebook page and his followers.

I've found that lately when I start a topic  and hit the 'Post' button it doesn't appear as if the post has been made but it actually has. So I just hit the post button once and then manually go back to the General On Topic Discussions page to check. (Copy your post first, just in case)

Wouldn't you like to Break Away from the madness of the year 2020? How about a trip back to 1969? I hope you will enjoy my new Beach Boys  YouTube video.

Break Away here:  https://youtu.be/m4FsX9gGvx8

The troubling fact that certain Beach Boys are prize-winning douche bags shouldn't come as breaking news to followers of this forum, but this sort of occurrence does make it harder to separate the person from the music.

Are you planning on making a video for "The Trader"? That one would lend itself quite well, I'd guess, for it's historical lyrics. On the other hand it's a long tune which means a lot of fitting pictures are needed.

I don't have any thing planned right now, except that I'm thinking I'll do something from Surf's Up next August to celebrate another 50 year anniversary. I don't know what song I would do though since I've already done my two favorite tracks Surf's Up and 'Til I Die.

This may have already been discussed at various points over the decades, but if it has, I missed it.  So here goes...  To my ear, at various points of MOLC, the drum pattern echoes the barnyard verse melody (i.e.,  "out in the barnyard the cook is chopping lumber").  I'm talking about the parts of MOLC that can be heard very clearly 0:26-029, 0:46-0:48, 1:04-1:07 on the tracking session excerpts on Disc 4 of TSS box.  You could sing an up-tempo "out in the farmyard the chickens do their number" over those parts.

Is this simply the case of Brian using some of the same musical ideas in multiple tracks?  Or is it an intentional echo across both tracks, just as there's an echo of Good Vibrations in Look, etc.?  No one seems to talk much about Barnyard as a potential Elements section, but could it have been?  Obviously, there's a farmyard animal theme with both pieces.  Barnyard, of course, began life as part of the Heroes and Villains orbit, but The Elements of course has its own connections to H&V, with what's used as the Fire Intro was recorded as "Heroes and Villains intro." Obviously the whole project was very fluid, and with the "Teenage Symphony to God" concept, perhaps it's not surprising that Brian might have borrowed the classical music concept of introducing various musical ideas in the overture (H&V?) that will reappear in later movements.

As I recall it, the use of the H&V intro being combined with Mrs. Oleary  didn't come from Brian. It was writers and fan mixers who did it when Smile speculation was an ongoing hot topic and the idea has just stuck over the years.

Love this!
Also great to see the "mystery lyrics". I didn't check out the thread on this board, so it's the first time I actually read them. After so many years, the track still has it's surprises.

One big surprise is that I swear I can hear Mike quoting their recent hit single 'Do It Again' in the fade.

I think the simpler explanation is probably the correct one here. They did sometimes have lyrics change throughout repetitions in a coda (e.g. Break Away 'mothers and brothers' etc...) - but more often they kept them the same on each repetition. They also never used words like 'advocate' - Mike would have scoffed at a lyric like that.

I do think the full lyric is genuinely indiscernible in the existing mix, such that over-listening will only reinforce whatever your brain has decided it's hearing. I still hear 'If(/when) you get lonely in the night I...' on every repetition. It just makes the most sense, bearing in mind the stuff about sending words of love to light the way in darkness etc. The word 'lonely' is the most indisputable overall, it is definitely present every time.

Perhaps someone could try with the slightly more 'spatialised' version from the Desper study video, on the odd chance anyone still has access to it.

Tom, you seem to be a logical guy and thank you for your thoughts on these lyrics. I would maintain though, that in this same time period, Mike Love wrote songs with such words and phrases as "ecological aftermath", "omnipresent", "emancipate", "astrology", and "transcendental meditation". I don't think it's much of stretch to think he would use the word "advocates" in this song. This was written in a time when the Beach Boys were struggling to regain some commercial relevance in the face of major cultural shifts and 'All I Wanna Do' is a song that reflects that.